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Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism from California Collections at the Pasadena Museum of California Art
Released: May 10, 2013Pasadena, CA – The Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA), is proud to present Sam Francis: Five Decades of Abstract Expressionism from California Collections, the first major museum exhibition of Francis’s work in over a decade. Known as one of the twentieth century's most influential painters of light and color, Sam Francis maintained studios in New York, France, Switzerland, and Japan, but continually returned to his native California, finishing his last series of paintings in Santa Monica just before his death in November 1994. The exhibition brings together Francis’s paintings and u...
The Civil War and American Art Opens at the Met
Released: May 16, 2013Because the American Civil War threatened both the founding principles and the viability of the republic, the nation’s entire population was deeply affected by the fact of the conflict and its outcome. The major loan exhibition The Civil War and American Art, which will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning May 27, will consider how American artists responded to the Civil War and its aftermath. Landscapes and genre scenes—more than traditional history paintings—captured the war’s impact on the American psyche. The exhibition traces the trajectory of the conflict: unease...
Rembrandt Peale portrait of George Washington achieves $662,500 to lead Heritage Auctions’ two-day, $4.5+ million American art events
Released: May 16, 2013Rembrandt Peale’s iconic portrait of U.S. President George Washington – created in the artist’s lifelong quest to paint the most recognizable image of the “Father of the United States” – realized a new world record for a porthole portrait by the artist when it sold for $662,500 to lead Heritage Auctions’ two-day, $4.5+ million American art events in Dallas. The May 10-11 events spanned American Indian art, Texas, Western and California Art and masterpieces of Fine American art. The auction sold 88 percent by lot and 93 percent by value and pushed three artists’ records past $5...
Westchester Conservatory Honors Educator, Artist, Musician at Alumni Reunion June 1st.
Released: May 15, 2013The Music Conservatory of Westchester (MCW), a non-profit community music school in White Plains, NY, that sponsors a regular series of art exhibitions in their 260-seat recital Hall, will hold their Inaugural Alumni Reunion and Concert June 1st. The event will feature an exhibition of paintings, performances by MCW students and faculty, cocktails & hors d’oeuvres, and the unveiling of a new photo exhibit chronicling the school since its founding in 1929. Alumnus and celebrated New Rochelle artist, educator and musician David Tobey will be honored at the event. Over the past 2...
MATTHEW'S GALLERIES - June 25th Auction
Released: May 15, 2013Matthew's Galleries announces its summer fine arts auction of 19th & 20th century American and European paintings, watercolors and fine prints. Highlights include a sanguine drawing by Pierre-Auguste Renior (French, 1841-1919) "Jeune Femme nue aux bras leves", 8 1/4" x 6 3/8", and two street scene paintings by Eugene Galien-Laloue (French, 1854-1941), each 10 7/8" x 13 7/8". Noted lots from the American paintings selection is "Mt. Shasta, California" by William S. Parrott (1843-1915), a 18" x 22" canvas, and a high key impressionist painting by Henry J. Albright (1887-1951)...
Tim White-Sobieski: stainless steel and light sculptures in Palma de Mallorca
Released: May 14, 2013Galeria Maior is pleased to present work of Tim White-Sobieski in Palma; in 2008 Galeria Maior has exhibited the artist's installation at its satellite location in Pollença. Current project consists of mirror polished stainless steel sculptures with projected video compositions, full-color light-emitting diodes panels, and fiver-optics light installations, wall video projections. Project includes series of 24 photographs. Artist employs various multimedia sources for establishing a sacred space within his glowing photo-video-sculptural installation. Lights and projected videos are filme...
PROVENANCE TAKES PRECEDENCE: AMERICAN ART AT BONHAMS NEW YORK
Released: May 13, 2013NEW YORK —A significant selection of fresh to the market American art highlights Bonhams May 22 American Art auction at the Madison Avenue salesroom. 96 lots will be offered in total, including works from the 19th century, Hudson River School, Impressionism, Modernism, and regional schools of art. Eastman Johnson’s painting Indian Family, circa 1856-57, is the auction’s top lot (est. $400,000-600,000). This authentic scene depicts a seated elderly American Indian man, his face worn and his eyes wary, next to a curious and rosy-cheeked infant swaddled and placed in...
Complete Andy Warhol Endangered Species and Ads 1985 portfolios expected to exceed $250,000+ each at Heritage Auctions modern and contemporary art event
Released: May 13, 2013More than 200 fresh-to-market lots includes works by Estes, Ruscha, Lichtenstein and Picasso, May 22, in Dallas. A portfolio of 10 screen prints from Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species, 1983, may bring $250,000 to lead Heritage Auctions' May 22 Modern and Contemporary Art Signature® Auction in Dallas. Each signed and numbered in pencil, the portfolio is presented in a single lot and is one of eight lots featuring the Master of Pop Art, to include Ads, 1985, ($200,000+), Liz, 1967, ($5,000+) and Teddy Roosevelt, from the Cowboys and Indians portfolio, ($12,000+). “The fine Warhols are j...
BONHAMS NEW YORK TO OFFER IMPORTANT STUDIO GLASS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. ANTHONY TERRANA
Released: May 13, 2013NEW YORK — Bonhams will offer Important Studio Glass from the Collection of Dr. Anthony Terrana in the June 14 20th Century Decorative Arts auction at the Madison Avenue salesroom. Comprised of 23 impressive works created by some of today’s most gifted, innovative and influential artists in this burgeoning collecting field, this notable group inspires the mind with its exploration of the modern-day treatment of glass. 2013 marks the 51st anniversary of the birth of the American Studio Glass movement – a phenomenon which has brought glassmaking from the domain of factory crafts...
John Waddingham: Retrospective
Released: May 11, 2013Matthew's Galleries is pleased to have acquired the estate collection of Oregon artist John Waddingham's work, spanning more than 65 years. More than 200 works will be on exhibit for sale, with an opening reception Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 4-8pm. The exhibit will run through June 4, 2013. Oils, watercolors, monotypes and fine prints will be included, many created in the Portland metropolitan area, but also from his travels around the world. John Waddingham was internationally known, but is remembered as the Art Director for The Oregonian for twenty years (and Art Director at the Oregon Jou...
African American Art Featured at Gray’s Auctioneers
Released: May 13, 2013Gray’s Auctioneers’ May 15 Fine Art, Antiques and Decorative Arts Auction features a number of stellar artworks by African-American artists. One such stunning piece is Lot 54, The Seamstresses, painted in 1954 by famed African-American artist and master of the Harlem Renaissance, Jacob Lawrence. Lawrence gained national acclaim as a painter while still a young man in his twenties when a portion of his work from the Migrations Series, a suite of paintings depicting the early twentieth-century passage of African-Americans from the Deep South to the urban North, was featured in a 1941 issue o...
AMY LASKIN - Garden Goddesses
Released: May 1, 2013Amy Laskin comes all the way from Kingston, Jamaica to the Carl Hammer Gallery for her first one person exhibition here, but her roots are firmly established in the traditions and history of Chicago art. Having graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and being especially inspired by her master teachers Karl Wirsum, Phil Hanson and especially Christina Ramberg and Barbara Rossi, her work is very much imbued with those early influences. Upon graduation, Laskin signed up for a stint in The Peace Corps. The land/country in ...
Rockwell Kent- Rediscovered
Released: May 8, 2013Tom Veilleux Gallery in Portland, Maine is currently showing a group of works by Rockwell Kent, including recently discovered works given by Kent to Mr. and Mrs. Abe Colish and their daughter. These works have descended in that family and now make their way to the art market for the first time. The Colish family paintings include an oil painting titled, Monhegan. Paintings of Monhegan by Kent, not previously known to scholars, are rarely offered for sale. Most are in museums and prestigious private collections. Rockwell Kent arrived on Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine...
Homer and Inness Exhibitions Open at the Clark in June
Released: May 9, 2013American art takes center stage this summer at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, crowning a summer schedule that provides an exceptionally lively program of events and activities. Headlining the season are two special exhibitions opening June 9: Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History and George Inness: Gifts from Frank and Katherine Martucci. Both exhibitions are open until September 8. An exploration of the Clark’s extensive collection of works by the noted American artist, Winslow Homer: Making Art, Making History examines founder Sterling Clark’s decades-long pursuit ...
"Arthur Polonsky: Mythical Flight" on exhibit at Childs Gallery, Boston
Released: May 9, 2013A Boston Expressionist with a wholly unique worldview, Arthur Polonsky (b. 1925) has spent the past seven decades exploring man’s place in an unknowable universe, the subject of an enthralling new show, on view through June 28th, at Childs Gallery. Like his thought-provoking artwork, Arthur Polonsky is disquietingly enigmatic. His subjects are recognizable, yet he professes there’s no inherent narrative. His vision is wholly personal, yet the imagery has an inclusive universality. And though he is inspired by poetry, mythology, and symbolism, Polonsky paints with an unbridled imm...
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